Adam Wolfson is a political writer and editor known for his work on political philosophy, civil liberties, and contemporary ideological debates. He served as editor of The Public Interest and has been associated with conservative intellectual circles. He contributed essays to The Weekly Standard from 1995 to 2006 on topics ranging from bioethics and evolution to national sovereignty and the nature of liberalism.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT EVEN the slightest dissent from Darwin's theory of natural selection that drives liberal elites (and even some conservative elites) bonkers? In the 1920s, in the days of the Scopes trial, it was the fact that anyone could believe the story of Genesis in a literal way that offended…
MORE THAN A DECADE after the end of the Cold War, foreign affairs are once again front and center of American politics, and for the first time in perhaps five elections, since the face-off between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter in 1980, Americans must choose between two distinct approaches to U.S.…
The Case for Sovereignty
The Breaking of Nations
IT IS SAID THAT GENERALS are always fighting the last war, and this is no less true of politicians and policymakers. As the first war of the new century begins, America's leaders have been reaching back to the two great struggles of the 20th century, against communism and fascism, to understand…
AS MUCH AS LIBERALS WERE MYSTIFIED by conservative hostility toward Bill Clinton, so conservatives were baffled by liberal love for Clinton. How did this good old boy from Arkansas manage to inspire the affection of the Left from Harvard to Hollywood? One answer is to be found in The Truth of…
The Long March
The Limits of Privacy
In 1981, a small book appeared from a university press that looked at the modern world and saw nothing but disarray. Indeed, in the author's view, morality as such had nearly vanished, and the collapse of intelligible moral discourse marked a serious "degeneration" and "cultural loss." Arguing that…
The summer of 1998 will be remembered not only for baseball sluggers and Oval Office sex but also for animal cloning. Reports of cloned cows and mice and even the cloning of a nearly extinct breed of New Zealand cow trickled in from around the globe. Curiously, though, the new spate of clonings…
David Boaz
With the recent electoral triumph of conservatism, the question will increasingly be asked: What is this "conservatism"? How that question is answered is important, for it is no longer merely an academic one, fought out among out-of-power conservatives. Rather, how the question is answered will…